Political Correctness Gone Mad
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This irritates me. I sang that song A SHIT TON* during my childhood. I turned out alright according to my parents, so I think that the song is ok too.Inverse Skies said:
*This is not a quantifiable amount and is a simplification of large quantities of shit. Seriously large. Like 1000000000000000000000000000000 of something might be a milli-Shit Ton. Have fun calculating how many times I actually sang that thing.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was gonna throw up on here. Technically, by their terminology I'm a GermIriWelPolsomethingorotherMerican. It's just easier to call me a white boy. 'Sides, I have a black friend who calls me a cracker. I don't care, because it's all in jest.Samurai Goomba said:
The fact of the matter is that we now live in a day and age where everyone HAS to be sensitive, unless you want to get sued. You HAVE to have a certain amount of black employees, or you're racist, for example. The logic failure in this is that you're no longer hiring for skill, so the quality of your services could take a hit if you're forced to take on someone who isn't qualified for the position.
I was able to find this follow up article:scotth266 said:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/breitbart-jon-stewart-and-kumar-go-to-white-house/
Excerpt:
The "joke" was that these right-wing zealots weren't giving the new president enough time, that the previous president did worse things, and that I, in particular, was ridiculous for blaming the president for "St. Patrick's Day" becoming "Potato Day" at my kids' public school. (Yes, the name change took place. No, I did not blame President Obama ? specifically.)
....*weeps*link670 said:
Ok, this is just TOO bad. How does a man like this get elected? Do tell me he's done some nice, rational things too. Please?
St.Patricks Day is a day that fundamentally revolves AROUND BEING IRISH. St.Patrick is a hero of IRISH FOLKLORE. Hence the reason that the day IS NAMED AFTER FUCKING ST.PATRICK!!!
Pardon my French there. It's just that this, as a (mainly) Irish person, offends me to the core. It's a holiday that was meant to celebrate a culture, but now thanks to this prick it's being relegated to a FUCKING FOOD ITEM. Sure, potatoes are Irish, but potatoes grow everywhere. There was only one St.Patrick, and naming the day after him was done to honor his place in Irish myth and tradition. The poor bastard must be rolling in his grave, God rest his honorable soul.
EDIT: Christ, this pissed me off so much that I typed "in" as "is". Fuck.
I assume that when you say that, you are talking about Obama, it was not him, it was a local decision. Whoever on the school board felt that St. Patrick's day was something that needed to be made PC deserves to be put into Solitary Confinement.scotth266 said:
My apologies then. I was talking about the dude, not Obama.link670 said:
Speaking of which, I seem to be missing my chainsaw. And I'm covered in blood.
Meh, it probably a coincidence. If he turns up missing in the news, he TRIPPED. IN A LAKE. WITH SOME CHAINSAW FISH. Right.
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As an Irish person this really does hurt me. I can live with the drunk sterotype(because it's largely true) I can live with the the awful impersonations but for fucks sake this not only extracts the urine in the stupidist way possible but it actually makes me want to drill holes into some peoples skulls in the hope it will allow some common sense to find its way into their heads.
If no one has said it yet, since I've only read through the first page:
You can't call someone a midget, you have to call them a "little-person", because that's going to make them feel better about themselves. Yeah, bull-fucking-shit! I've never met someone like that who's ever enjoyed being called a little-person.
You can't call someone a midget, you have to call them a "little-person", because that's going to make them feel better about themselves. Yeah, bull-fucking-shit! I've never met someone like that who's ever enjoyed being called a little-person.
I can see the point in PC, but it doesn't mean that I agree with it.
And frankly, re-writing nursery rhymes to leave out the 'offensive' words, dubbing out cigarettes in films and effectively, re-writing history in some cases isn't on.
How can you justify it?
And frankly, re-writing nursery rhymes to leave out the 'offensive' words, dubbing out cigarettes in films and effectively, re-writing history in some cases isn't on.
How can you justify it?
I hate the phrase "political correctness gone mad", it brings to mind a KKK member brandishing a copy of Time magazine with Obama on the cover yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS".
That aside, I do remember a pretty bad case of uptighticus.
I do believe I remember someone actually asking if a bastard sword being called as such insulted real-life bastards.
Okay, I'm lying. I can't actually remember anything.
But I'm sure, someone, somewhere, actually asked that at some point!
That aside, I do remember a pretty bad case of uptighticus.
I do believe I remember someone actually asking if a bastard sword being called as such insulted real-life bastards.
Okay, I'm lying. I can't actually remember anything.
But I'm sure, someone, somewhere, actually asked that at some point!